Croatian Association of Music Theorists – CAMT

The Croatian Association of Music Theorists was founded in Zagreb on March 1, 1997. Today the CAMT has around 400 members who teach music theory an music history at specialized music schools from elementary to high school levels, at general education institutions, or promote music theory and practice in different ways. The CAMT strives to promote music theory, upgrade teaching music theory and the art of music and participate in all kinds of pedagogical activities relating to music theory.

The CAMT publishes the annual journal THEORIA with a circulation of 2500 copies printed every September. THEORIA presents articles about music theory, and is distributed to the members of the Association, all music schools and music academies in Croatia, as well as to all general education institutions where music is taught. The periodical covers a wide range of topics, as THEORIA Nr. 14 demonstrates. Most of the authors are Croatians, but international trends are also covered through translations of texts by foreign authors.

For the youngest students of music schools we invented a game: Musician, do not anger! or Musician’s Ludo. This is a set of nearly a dozen games based on knowledge about notes’ duration and pitch. Different games in the set are based on different playing boards. To play the game one only needs one or two normal six sided dice and the basic knowledge of music theory that children are able to master by the end of the second year of elementary music school, depending on the specific curriculum of their school. From this age onwards the knowledge about intervals, scales and chords can be practiced using the games included in the Musician’s Ludo set.

In 2005 the CAMT started a manifestation called The Days of Music Theory that takes place every year in September and October. Its course is usually very intensive, with presentations and lectures in many Croatian towns, with a big meeting in Zagreb, intended for all music theory teachers. Beside prominent Croatian colleagues, in the last few years we invited professors from abroad. In 2010 our lecturer was Franz Josef Stoiber from Regensburg, in 2011 the lecturers were Nika and John Koslovsky from the USA, and in 2012 our foreign lecturers were Leon Stefanija (Slovenia), Senad Kazić (Bosnia and Hercegovina), Anica Sabo and Zoran Božanić (Serbia).